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Moscow. April 26 is the 16th anniversary of the accident at
the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The Russian Democratic Party
Yabloko plans to conduct a nationwide action with the support
of public organisations. The participants in the action will come
there to commemorate the victims of the disaster and will express
their protest against the policy of the Ministry of Atomic Energy
aimed at importing foreign nuclear waste. Picketing and meetings
on this day will be organised in more than 50 regions in the country.
According to the press service of Yabloko faction, the prefecture
of Moscow's central administrative district has prohibited the
holding of this action in the capital. It was prohibited from
organising pickets near the building of the Ministry of Atomic
Energy. According to the deputy prefect of CAD Mr. Zaitsev, a
meeting cannot be held near the Ministry, as this would create
problems for the personnel of the Ministry, using the parking
spaces near the building.
The Moscow representatives of Yabloko regard the suggestion of
the Moscow authorities to conduct the meeting by the monument
to Lenin in Kaluzhskaya Square as a humiliation, according to
the press service. The press service also claimed that the Russian
Democratic Party Yabloko and environmental and human rights organisations
supporting the action reacted negatively to the position of the
Moscow authorities on this issue.
See also:
YABLOKO Against
Nuclear Waste Imports
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